Incredibly beautiful short films- mostly made by painting on glass- by acclaimed Swiss artist Georges Schwizgebel

Georges Schwizgebel, born on 28 September 1944 in Reconvilier, Switzerland, is a Swiss animation film director whose paint-on-glass-animated 2004 film L'Homme sans ombre (The Man With No Shadow) won various awards.

Schwizgebel was born on 28 September 1944 in Reconvilier, Canton of Berne (Jura bernois), in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. From 1960-65 he studied at theÉcole des Beaux-Arts et des Arts Décoratifs at Geneva. In 1971 he founded Studio GDS where he produced and directed animated films as well as working in graphic design. From 1986 to 1995 he worked on retrospectives and exhibitions, among others, in Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Tokyo, Osaka, Paris and New York. In 2002 he was awarded Swiss Film Prize, Best Short Film for “La jeune fille et les nuages”. His film, The Man With No Shadow was included in the Animation Show of Shows.

His 2011 short film Romance, a co-production of the National Film Board of Canada and two Swiss stu­dios, was one of five animated shorts nominated for the 32nd Genie Awards, where it won the Award for Best Ani­mated Short.

Sort of mockumentary about Barnes & Barnes, the twisted comedy/music band responsible for the timeless classic "Fish Heads" incl. all of their music videos w/ guests like Bill Paxton & Rae Dawn Chong

Barnes & Barnes, fictional twin brothers Art Barnes and Artie Barnes (Bill Mumy and Robert Haimer, respectively), are a comedy rock duo based in "Lumania", a fictional mythological civilization (similar to Lemuria or Atlantis). Most of their music is standard rockor pop with heavy comedic elements. They are best known for their 1978 song "Fish Heads".

Robert Haimer and Bill Mumy were childhood friends who occasionally performed together on their musical instruments. Following the ending of Mumy's role on the TV series Lost in Space, they would shoot short films with a Super 8 motion picture camera, dubbed "Art Films". The two began calling each other "Art" in joking reference to these films.

They formed the band Barnes & Barnes in 1970. Their surname Barnes was taken from a Bill Cosby comedy routine called "Revenge", in which a character called Junior Barnes throws a snowball at Cosby as a child. Originally, both Haimer and Mumy were named "Art Barnes", but Haimer's alter ego was publicly renamed "Artie" in 1979 to differentiate between them.

They first received airplay on The Dr. Demento Show in 1978 with their songs "Boogie Woogie Amputee" and "Fish Heads". The latter recording was released as a single on their own Lumania Records in 1979 and remains their best-known song, as well as the most requested song in the history of The Dr. Demento Show. They produced a video for the song, which was broadcast frequently as a novelty item on MTV. The song was often misattributed to The Chipmunks for its processed high-pitched chorus:

Fish heads, fish heads

Roly-poly fish heads

Fish heads, fish heads

Eat them up, yum!

In 1978, Damaskas and Barnes & Barnes recorded "A Day in the Life of Green Acres," a song that combined the music of The Beatles "A Day in the Life" with the lyrics to the theme song of the television show Green Acres. It was inspired by Little Roger and the Goosebumps' similar intertwining of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" and the theme toGilligan's Island.

Actor Bill Paxton appears in the videos for "Fish Heads", "Soak It Up", and "Love Tap".

In 2005, Barnes & Barnes were inducted into the Comedy Music Hall of Fame.

Bits from Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's 70s Tony Award-winning stage show that collected material from Not Only But Also and Goodbye Again

Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was an English actor, satirist, writer and comedian. An extremely influential figure in modern British comedy, he is regarded as the leading light of the British satire boom of the 1960s. Cook has been described by Stephen Fry as "the funniest man who ever drew breath", although his work was also controversial. Cook was closely associated with anti-establishment comedy which emerged in Britain and the United States in the late 1950s.

Cool and Moore fashioned sketches from Not Only....But Also and Goodbye Again with new material into the stage revue called Behind the Fridge. This show toured Australia in 1972 before transferring to New York in 1973, re-titled as Good Evening. Cook frequently appeared on and off stage the worse for drink. Nonetheless, the show proved very popular and it won Tony andGrammy Awards. When it finished, Moore stayed in the U.S. to pursue his film acting ambitions in Hollywood. Cook returned to Britain and in 1973 he married the actress and model Judy Huxtable.

Great Maysles Brothers doc from 1974 on Christo's massive "Valley Curtain" project was nominated for the Best Documentary Short Oscar

Christo (born Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, Bulgarian: Христо Явашев, June 13, 1935) and Jeanne-Claude (born Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, June 13, 1935 – November 18, 2009) were a married couple who created environmental works of art. Christo Yavacheff is Bulgarian born and Jeanne-Claude was born in Morocco. Their works include the wrapping of the Reichstag inBerlin and the Pont-Neuf bridge in Paris, the 24-mile (39 km)-long artwork called Running Fence in Sonoma and Marin counties inCalifornia, and The Gates in New York City's Central Park.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude were born on the same date, Christo in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, and Jeanne-Claude in Morocco. They first met in Paris in October 1958. Their works were credited to just "Christo" until 1994, when the outdoor works and large indoor installations were retroactively credited to "Christo and Jeanne-Claude". They flew in separate planes: in case one crashed, the other could continue their work.

Jeanne-Claude died, aged 74, on November 18, 2009, from complications of a brain aneurysm.

Although their work is visually impressive and often controversial as a result of its scale, the artists have repeatedly denied that their projects contain any deeper meaning than their immediate aesthetic impact. The purpose of their art, they contend, is simply to create works of art or joy and beauty and to create new ways of seeing familiar landscapes. Art critic David Bourdon has described Christo's wrappings as a "revelation through concealment." To his critics Christo replies, "I am an artist, and I have to have courage ... Do you know that I don't have any artworks that exist? They all go away when they're finished. Only the preparatory drawings, and collages are left, giving my works an almost legendary character. I think it takes much greater courage to create things to be gone than to create things that will remain."

At the end of 1970 Christo and Jeanne-Claude began their preparations for the Valley Curtain project. A 400-meter-long cloth was to be stretched across Rifle Gap, a valley in the Rocky Mountains near Rifle, Colorado. The project required 14,000 m2 of cloth to be hung on four steel cables, fastened with iron bars fixed in concrete on each slope, and 200 tons of concrete. The budget increased to $400,000, causing Christo and Jeanne-Claude additional problems with the financing. Finally enough works of art were sold to raise the money and, on 10 October 1971, the orange-coloured curtain was ready for hanging, but was torn to shreds by wind and rock. While a second curtain was being manufactured, Christo received a request from a Berlin art historian to wrap the Reichstag in response to the 1961 "Project for Wrapping a Public Building". On 10 August 1972, the second attempt to hang the cloth succeeded, but only 28 hours later it was destroyed by a storm gale in excess of 60 miles per hour.

The project was shown in the documentary film Christo's Valley Curtain, by David and Albert Maysles, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

In April 1978, Ringo Starr was behind an hour-long TV special simply called ‘Ringo.’ Built around a ‘Prince and the Pauper’-style premise, the show looked a lot like many other variety programs from the era. Right down to its eternal cheesiness.

The special begins with a mock press conference featuring George Harrison, whose first line — “I think it was the trousers” — references ‘All You Need Is Cash,’ the recently aired TV movie starring the mock Beatles group the Rutles. Harrison says he’s there to clear up any rumors surrounding Starr’s upcoming concert. He battles a barrage of questions from “the press,” setting the stage.

The show’s lead character, played by Starr, is named “Ognir Rats” (get it? That’s Ringo Starr backward, missing one of the “R”s). He’s a lonely guy, but the real Ringo proposes that they swap lives. And from there, ‘Ringo’ takes a decidedly cornball path, introducing a C-list cast worthy of ‘The Love Boat.’

For the next hour, various song-and-dance numbers — as well as plenty of very bad acting — parade by. They all feature Ringo, who runs through Beatles songs, solo hits and more. Have you ever wanted to hear Carrie Fisher duet with the former Beatle on ‘You’re Sixteen?’ Neither did we! And did you ever think one show could contain the star wattage emitted by Art Carney, Angie Dickinson, Mike Douglas, Vincent Price and John Ritter?

If you’re waiting for some big cosmic point to all this, well, there isn’t one. Other than the obvious lesson learned by both Ringo and Ognir that each was happier being himself.

The other lesson learned is that 99.2 percent of variety specials from the ’70s weren’t very good. Exactly what were people on during that period? Don’t tell us. We really don’t want to know. But the real question here is, Why did Ringo want to present this 1978 monstrosity? We love Ringo. We really do. But this TV special? Not so much.

Spoof of The Beatles career stars members of Monty Python as well as Mick Jagger, John Belushi, Bill Murray and many more

All You Need Is Cash (also known as The Rutles) is a 1978 television film that traces (in mockumentary style) the career of a fictitious British rock group called The Rutles. As TV Guide described it, the group's resemblance to The Beatles is "purely – and satirically – intentional."

The film was co-produced by the production companies of Eric Idle and Lorne Michaels, and directed by Idle and Gary Weis. It was first broadcast on March 22, 1978 on NBC, earning the lowest ratings of any show on American Prime time network television that week. It did much better in the ratings when it premiered in the UK on BBC2 less than one week later.

The music and events in the lives of the Rutles paralleled that of The Beatles almost to the letter, spoofing many of the latter's career highlights. For instance, the animated film Yellow Submarine is parodied as Yellow Submarine Sandwich, and the song "Get Back" became "Get Up And Go". Songs from the film were released on an accompanying soundtrack.

Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Need_Is_Cash

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